Enduring Love

If this pops up while you’re scrolling, I wish you unconditional love and massive success.

Salma Deera, Letters from Medea

embrace

Briony Marshall (Peaceful embrace or the melting of boundaries), Stephan Sinding (To Mennesker), Gustav Vigeland (Kiss), William Zorach (Embrace), Antonio Canova (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss)

Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Artists need to lay their soul bare for the world to mock

That must be painful

things that are scary that you just have to get over at some point

being wrong (as distinct from)

other people having different opinions from you (as distinct from)

minor disagreements

the eternal uncertainty caused by living in a universe where luck exists (e.g. Just Anything could happen to you for no reason)

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i've had this list open for so long but i can't think of anything else

i sorta feel like most other fears are kind of fine to have

oh like spiders i guess

hey sorry it's just that i don't think i'm very good at being a person. thanks for letting me try with you, anyway.

Rosario Castellanos, tr. by Julian Palley, from Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry; “Kinsey report”